To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790Univ of North Carolina Press, 8 dec 2006 - 344 pagina's Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a "golden age" or a disaster for women. Gundersen argues that women's lives varied greatly depending on race and class, but all women had to work within shifting parameters that enabled opportunities for some while constraining opportunities for others. Three generations of women in three households personalize these changes: Elizabeth Dutoy Porter, member of the small-planter class whose Virginia household included an African American enslaved woman named Peg; Deborah Franklin, common-law wife of the prosperous revolutionary, Benjamin; and Margaret Brant, matriarch of a prominent Mohawk family who sided with the British during the war. This edition incorporates substantial revisions in the text and the notes to take into account the scholarship that has appeared since the book's original publication in 1996. |
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Pagina ix
... century American studies. The new work appearing was gender- and race-sensitive and was illuminating corners of American experience long neglected. That outpouring of research has continued, and it is a measure of the vitality of the ...
... century American studies. The new work appearing was gender- and race-sensitive and was illuminating corners of American experience long neglected. That outpouring of research has continued, and it is a measure of the vitality of the ...
Pagina xiii
... centuries of exploration and a century and a half of settlement, the British American colonies were both mature societies and societies still being formed. Those who lived in the colonies—immigrant or native-born, African, European, or ...
... centuries of exploration and a century and a half of settlement, the British American colonies were both mature societies and societies still being formed. Those who lived in the colonies—immigrant or native-born, African, European, or ...
Pagina xiv
... century France and England were locked in a power struggle that did not conclude until the final defeat of Napoleon in 1814. From 1739 to 1748 Britain was at war first with Spain and then also with France in what began as the ''War for ...
... century France and England were locked in a power struggle that did not conclude until the final defeat of Napoleon in 1814. From 1739 to 1748 Britain was at war first with Spain and then also with France in what began as the ''War for ...
Pagina 4
... century. They chose family names linking children to grandparents, parents, and siblings. The Porters maintained a link with Elizabeth's family by making her surname a first name. Because the Porters' brothers and sisters followed ...
... century. They chose family names linking children to grandparents, parents, and siblings. The Porters maintained a link with Elizabeth's family by making her surname a first name. Because the Porters' brothers and sisters followed ...
Pagina 12
... century at war with French Canada, the Iroquois became British allies, but by midcentury they were trying to mark out a more independent diplomacy.≤∫ Throughout the 1740s the area occupied by Indians east of the Mississippi saw ...
... century at war with French Canada, the Iroquois became British allies, but by midcentury they were trying to mark out a more independent diplomacy.≤∫ Throughout the 1740s the area occupied by Indians east of the Mississippi saw ...
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3 The Silken Cord | 45 |
4 Mistress and Servant | 67 |
5 Dutiful Daughters and Independent Minds | 89 |
6 Sisters of the Spirit | 109 |
7 An Injurious and Ill Judging World | 133 |
8 The Garden Within | 153 |
9 Daughters of Liberty | 173 |
10 Mothers of the Republic | 201 |
Essay on the Sources | 219 |
Notes | 237 |
Index | 315 |
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Pagina 308 - The female review: or, Memoirs of an American young lady; whose life and character are peculiarly distinguished — being a continental soldier, for nearly three years, in the late American war.